Last Day, Time for a Road Trip to Agaete

We wanted to see the rugged west side of Gran Canaria but had to hold off while we were not feeling 100% for a few days last week so we decided to use our last day here to make some more use of the rental car. Our destination today was the little village of Puerto de las Nieves and the town of Agaete.

We started the climb up the Barranco de Mogan and took the CG-200 highway to the coast. There are lots of places to pull over for some photos of the countryside.

We stopped at this fruit stand that is frequented by the cyclists doing the hill climb. It is right next to this area of beautiful rainbow coloured rock.

Descending the mountains, we approached La Aldea with its expansive banana, mango, avocado and papaya plantations. They are the large areas under the netting that looks like massive greenhouses.

Now we had some serious driving along the cliff edge of the coastal "highway". Continuous switchbacks and 100% attention required.

We could see Puerto de Nevis as we approached from the cliff road above.

About 500 curves and switchbacks later we were there. I think I paid 2 euro to a scammer to park in a gravel lot near the harbour but I was good with that as we were close to the heart of the town and the streets were too narrow for parking or were pedestrian only.

We walked out on the pier and saw the waves breaking against the heavily armoured break wall.

This is a fishing harbour and also a port for ferries from Tenerife.

The town really reminded us of a greek village, same colour scheme and interesting village scenes. Even the cats have Greek Is coloured houses.

We stopped for a seafood lunch before continuing on to the town of Agaete for a brief walk around. The main street is narrow but lined with typical Canarian buildings featuring traditional wooden balconies.

Also a local pub...

It was getting to be late in the afternoon and there was no way I was driving the roads anywhere near dusk so we started to retrace our steps and stop at a few interesting sites we bypassed on our way to Aegate. This place was a priceless mishmash of colourful stuff.

A few more "Miradors".

A final stop in Mogan to check out this unusual windmill and a bunch of oversized kitchen equipment?

We got home at 5:00 pm and retreated to the Spar (the grocery store a few paces away) to buy a bottle of wine to help with the packing tonight.